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Mgr. Jakub Marek, Ph.D.

Jakub MAREK, assistant professor

Department of Philosophy

Research Areas

  • Modern Philosophy

  • Philosophical Anthropology

Courses

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Contact Information and Office Hours

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Languages

  • Czech (native speaker)

  • English

  • German

  • Russian

  • Danish

Education

  • 2010: Ph.D., thesis: Kierkegaard. The Indirect Prophet of Existence.

  • 2006–2010: Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, doctoral study program "Anthropology".

  • 2006: Mgr., grade A, thesis: Hamlet’s Dialectics.

  • 2004–2006: Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, master study program "General Anthropology - Integral Study of Man"

  • 2004: Bc., summa cum laude, thesis: The Task of Existence, On Jaspers’ Concept of Existence in the Psychology of World-Views [Psychologie der Weltanschauungen]

  • 2001–2004: Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, bachelor study program "Humanities"

Work Experience

  • 2020–2025: Head of the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University

  • 2019–2025: Head of the Philosophical Module at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University

  • 2017–2019: Head of the Department of General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University

  • 2010–present: Assistant professor of Philosophy at the Department of General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague with research interests in modern philosophy and philosophical anthropology

Stays Abroad

  • 2019: Fellow of the Summer Fellows Research in Residence program, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, Northfield (Minnesota USA)

  • 2018: Fellow of the Summer Fellows Research in Residence program, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, Northfield (Minnesota USA)

  • 2014: visiting scholar at the S. Kierkegaard Research Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark

  • 2007–2013: a series of shorter research trips to the S. Kierkegaard Research Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark

  • 2007–2009: Three shorter research trips to the Kierkegaard Research Centre Copenhagen and to the Kierkegaard Colloqium of the Justus Liebig Universität Giessen

  • 2005: Semestral studies at the Philosophical Seminary of the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen

  • 2004: Junior Fellow at the Collegium Pontes, Institut für kulturelle Infrastruktur Görlitz - Universität Zittau-Görlitz

  • 2003: Erasmus exchange program stay at the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main

Awards

  • 2011: awarded by the Josef Hlávka Prize for the graduates of Czech universities and young workers of the Academy of Sciences.

  • 2011: receiver of the Jan Hus Foundation scholarship

 

Memberships

  • 2016–2020: vice-chair of the Supervisory Board of the Charles University Grant Agency

  • 2012–2016, 2007–2009: member of the Academic Senate of the Charles University in Prague

  • Member of The International Kierkegaard Society

  • Member of the Advisory Board Acta Kierkegaardiana

Publications

Books

  • (2015) Marek, Jakub, Leporello. Smrtelnost, práce a nepřirozenost člověka [Leporello. Mortality, work, and human unnaturalness], Praha: Togga, 2015. ISBN 978-80-7476-084-6 (in Czech)

  • (2010) Marek, Jakub, Kierkegaard. Nepřímý prorok existence [Kierkegaard. Indirect Prophet of Existence], Praha: Togga, 2010. ISBN 978-80-87258-31-6. (in Czech)

Papers (selection)

  • (2016) Marek, J., „Kierkegaardova apolitická politika, aneb Jak odevzdat císařovo císaři a Boží Bohu“, in Filozofia 4/2016, ss. 270-281.

  • (2015) Marek, J., „Sickness“, in Stewart, Jon et al. (eds.), Kierkegaard´s Concepts (Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, Volume 15, Tome II), Farnham, Ashgate Publishing 2015, s. 35-41, ISBN 978-1-4724-5763-9.

  • (2015) Marek, J., „Anti-Climacus: Kierkegaard’s ‘servant of the word’“, in Stewart, Jon, Nun, Katalin (eds.), Kierkegaard´s Pseudonyms (Kierkegaard´s Concepts (Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, Volume 17), Farnham, Ashgate Publishing 2015, s. 39-51, ISBN 978-1-4724-5763-9.

  • (2015) Marek, Jakub, “Svět jako vůle a metafora. Na margo vztahu Schopenhauer-Nietzsche” [The World as Will and Metaphor. On the Margin of the Schopenhauer-Nietzsche Relationship], in Novák, Aleš (ed.), Nietzsche a (ne)přátelé [Nietzsche and (Non)Enemies], Praha: Togga, 2015. ISBN 978-80-7476-070-9. (in Czech)

  • (2014) Marek, Jakub, “Contradiction”, in Emmanuel, Steven M. et al. (eds.), Kierkegaard’s Concepts:Clasicism to Enthusiasm, edice Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, Volume 15, Tome II: Kierkegaard’s Concepts, Ashgate Publishing 2014, ss. 73-80, ISBN 978-1-4724-2839-4.

  • (2014) Marek, Jakub, “Experience”, in Emmanuel, Steven M. et al. (eds.), Kierkegaard’s Concepts:Envy to Incognito, edice Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, Volume 15, Tome III: Kierkegaard’s Concepts, Ashgate Publishing 2014, ss. 53-59, ISBN 978-1-4724-3432-6.

















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